Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

374. then he'd be there. So, the only thing he laughed about was, he
375. kept teasing me, he's bought plastic dust sheets and he keeps saying
376. he's going to cello tape them from the kitchen all the way up the
377. stairs to the bedroom and bathroom coz I'm not ruining his carpet
378. (laughs). Oh, that's the only thing that we've sort of like mucked
379. about on, you know plastic dust sheets and a plastic sheet for the
380. bed that he's put on already in case anything happens. And, that's
381. you know, if (pause) he's got a very very good sense of humour
382. like that. Yeah, he was against it, I suppose at the beginning when I
383. first mentioned home birth, it was a case ofdarling, what if
384. something goes wrong? And I said, but you can say that in hospital
385. as well, I said, 50, you know, it's a chance you've got to take? And
386. he sat down, and I bought a magazine, and we read that together',
387. and it was pros and cons? And believe ft or not even in the
388. magazine there was more pros to having a home birth than cons.
389. So he sat back and he said give me a couple Of days, I said alright
390. and then we sat down one evening when he wasn't at work and he
391. said, Okay, if that's what you want. You know and he's been
392. brilliant since! There has been no hostility from him about it,
393. when the midwife was I suppose sitting and chatting about it, I was
394. expecting him to sort of sit back and think you know well, hang
395. on, he didn't, he was with me 100%. So (pause)
• What worried him most about the home birth?
396. Um, I think it, like he said, it was a Case Of fanything went wrong,
397. urn, having to wait for an ambulance to come,
398. and then the ambulance to take me from here to the hospital,
399. he was worried that it might threaten my life?
400. And when I explained to him that (pause) they know in advance,
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